Advice on publishing html site to replace ESW Pro Site

[chrissiedeva]

Hi,

         We have published a web site using Easy Site Wizard Pro. Although we have managed to get a site up and running, we are finding ESW to be not as intuitive or flexible as we would have liked.

          I do know basic html/css and have been considering building a site using html/css from scratch to replace the ESW site. However, there does not seem to be that much documentation available as to how to do this. The questions I am looking to answer would be (assuming what I am asking is possible) – how do you ‘de-publish’ the ESW site without deleting it and how do you point your domain to display your self-built site – should the home page be named index.html and be put in your \public folder, with this folder being your site root or is this being too simplistic? I did look how the ESW files were stored, but these are stored as XML so this is a different scenario to what I am trying to achieve. Any help or pointing in the direction of appropriate documentation would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

www.devacollector.com

[Nguitar]

Hello, You can actually manually edit the html source inside Easy Site Wizard by hovering your mouse over the "Advanced Options" icon (the 2 cogwheels) and selecting the "Edit html source" option. This will allow you to customize the source code of your .html pages inside Easy Site Wizard

[chrissiedeva]

Hi,

      Thanks for the reply. I was aware that you could edit the html manually, but I don't find this option to be flexible enough. If you look at the html using this method, it is completely unformatted and the task of finding the right part to edit is onerous. I'd also like to have the ability to change the backgound template images (ie the ones originally on the template, not the ones I've added), for example to be able to fit more text in them , but it is a non-trivial exercise for me to look through all the code to find out how to change this, assuming it can be changed. As mentioned, I also find ESW to be very flaky. I would much prefer to design the site from scratch using html and css, but I don't know how to do this, so any advice on how to discard the ESW page (without deleting it) and to set up a page using my own html/css would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Nguitar]

At this time there is no "Unpublish" feature included in Easy Site Wizard. The easiest way to "disable" the pre-built ESW site is to log in to your file manager or using an FTP client like filezilla and rename your existing index.html file. If you rename it to something along the lines of "index.html_off" this will prevent visitors to your page seeing the ESW index page. Your replacement index.html must be named accordingly.

[chrissiedeva]

Thanks for this. I will try this out.